MAD was based on the idea that the US or Soviets wanted to annihilate the other but didn't because the other side would destroy them.
It appeared to work because we are alive and the citizens of Hiroshima are not.
The truth always was that the US did not want to destroy Russia and the Russians wanted to save up for a house in Malibu.
It was in a way a con by those who made money from war on each side.
Their advice was to spend more.
In any orgy of wasteful spending the US Congress is always world champion.
When the Commies went broke they gave up the Cold War and we "won"
At the end they supposedly had a LOT more nuclear capability than the US but it made no difference.
Russians leaders kids still wanted to go to Disneyland.

In WW2 Japan one side really did want to nuke the other.

This will happen again even though one side will lose New York and the other will have every city and village burned to the ground and their cause forgotten.
MAD ain't gonna work when one side really wants to nuke he other.

In 1863 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound.
In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan.
In 1984 James Huberty a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherril a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.
In 1991 George Hennard a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 23 people in a Lubys cafeteria.
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 8 people at a church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US .
In 2003 Douglas Williams a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.
In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger a disgruntled Democrat shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.
In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in a school.
One could go on, but you get the point, even if the media does not.
Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.

30,000 gun deaths a year--you think you can find a few Republicans and Tea Baggers too?

Remember that in 1865 the Republicans were the party that were responsibility for eliminating slavery. They worked hard to offend nearly all black people in America. But the numbers never lie, that is one of their few recent successes.

A Remington 870 pump 12 gauge shotgun with a removed plug (7 shells), pumping/shooting at two shots per second (not hard to do) will be spraying projectiles at a rate of 18 per second. Who needs anything else? The only down side, reloading.

"The 00-Buck (generally pronounced double-ought buck) in a 2 3/4″ inch shell holds 9 lead balls which travel in excess of 1300 fps. Each ball is .33 caliber. Think about it………that is 9 .33 caliber lead balls traveling at over 1300 fps. Devastating."

You bet shotguns can be lethal killers. However, in Colorado the most shells you can magazine is eight. Extended clips in "assualt weapons" hold considerably more.

Really, the largest threat to life is hand guns because they can be concealed (except for Sbard, who can conceal a rifle is his pants "is that an AR15 or are you just glad to see me"?

Every time we have a mass killing, the conversation revolves around keeping guns from lunatics and eliminating assualt weapons. This distracts from the larger issue that most of the deaths involving guns are single killings as a result of robberies, accidents, suicides, gang activities and crimes of passion.

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